Short Bookish Quotes & Sayings

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit. — Hugh Blair

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. — William Ellery Channing

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time. — W.S. Merwin

Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange. — Bernie Sanders

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." — Charles Dickens

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it — Macklemore

I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a — Paulo Coelho

Tell them how much you appreciate them. — John C. Maxwell

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful. — Ann Brashares

Just answer me this. Is she worth it?" Ash's face went blank and cold, like a door slamming shut.
"Would this be considered payment for finding sweetfinger?" he replied in a voice dead of emotion.
The dwarf snorted. "Yeah, sure, whatever. But I want a serious answer, Prince."
Ash was still for a moment. "Yes," he murmured, his voice so low I barely caught it. "She's worth it."
"You know Mab will tear you apart for this."
"I know."
-Dwarf and Ash — Julie Kagawa

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys. — Elspeth Huxley

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it. — Octavia E. Butler